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From: schmiul@uni-muenster.de (Ulrich Schmid)
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Jean Valentin wrote:

>Hello tc-ers!

>Here are some more funny features of my Arabic manuscript, Sinai Arabic 
>71. It's about the way it translates the Greek particle ARA (approx. 
>meaning "thus") in three passages.

>The ms covers Mt 23 - Lk 5. In all that text, the Greek "ara" comes 4 
>times (Mt 24.45, Mk 4.41, Mk 11.13 and Lk 1.66). In three of these cases 
>(Mk 11.13 is the exception), my Arabic version translates it by the 
>Arabic verb _r'y_ (akin to the hebrew ra'ah).

In conversation with Dr. Andreas Juckel he points to the transliteration of 
Greek ARA in the Harclensis (Syriac ara = _'r'_).

Ulrich Schmid, Muenster

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